... Central Government Central Government aims to break the cycle of inequality and poverty using services such as the National Health Service, Department of Health, the National Framework Service for Children, Young People and Maternity Services and the five principles that are used to fulfil the basic needs of children and achieve their life goals. The principles are as follows: 1. Stay safe 2. Healthy 3. Enjoy and achieve 4. Economic well-being 5. Positive contribution. You can easily remember this why using SHEEP an acronym. The NHS - National Health Service – provides healthcare for all UK citizens based on type of healthcare they need rather than the ability to pay for it. It is all funded by taxes. It involves all types of healthcare including the care of children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities. It holds the duty of providing the suitable resources and assistance for a family. Staff will work very closely with other agencies and a multi-disciplinary team may be involved in the overall care plan for an individual. It came around after the Second World War which ended in 1948. People of that time didn’t have enough money to pay treatments and so the NHS came into plan. Local Government Local government set up places and facilities that are available to the local people that are in need of help, for example extra-curricular clubs which are run by the local authority. Another example would be the Local Authority Children’s...
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...Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong SPECIAL ARTICLE Correspondence to: Dr Wai Man Chan, Elderly Health Service, Department of Health, Hong Kong. E-mail: w_m_chan@dh.gov.hk ABSTRACT Care for the elderly was one of the 3 main policy objectives of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1997. Many policy initiatives have been introduced in terms of financial support, better housing, and long-term care services. For active ageing, an innovative project known as the ‘Elder Academy’ aimed at promoting intergenerational cohesion, which is now under threat owing to changing social patterns. With the rapid increase in the number of ‘old-olds’, more resources on dementia care, community support, professional staff development, carer training, and coordination of care are necessary. In terms of financing, shared responsibility is the only viable option. In the 2012-13 budget speech, a pilot for community care service voucher as a means of promoting ageing at home was announced. As the coming cohorts of elders are more affluent and knowledgeable, they tend to be healthier and have different demands and expectations, such as independent living with better quality of life. The private sector may explore the markets of community care services and elder-oriented products. To meet the emerging needs, a holistic approach should be adopted, with modifications of the labour laws to make use of the talents of elders and to provide more flexible work arrangements for family members...
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...put in place to protect both ourselves and the children are sensible and show that we have a professional approach to risk.’ (Play Wales, 2008) Just as children need to be introduced to some potentially risky play opportunities in small steps in order to build skills, judgment and confidence, so we need to take small steps towards feeling comfortable ourselves with providing risky play opportunities. Begin this cautiously and with common sense; when your confidence is developing, you can look at providing riskier (but still assessed!) opportunities. We may allow ourselves to be influenced by parents or carers who are frightened that their child might be harmed. We need to reflect on this – quality play opportunities involve some element of risk taking or creation, however small, and most parents will understand this if they think back to their own childhood. However parents/carers concerns do need to be taken in to consideration as they need to feel that their children are safe in our...
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...emotionally and psychologically healthy childcare centres or parents/carers should fulfil their child’s physical needs together with psychological needs. We are going to point out and discuss on a three year old child’s physical and psychological needs and how they can affect the child’s physical, emotional and psychological health. A three year old child needs to be well fed, given ample of rest and should be encouraged doing physical exercise. They should also be given precautions of safety everywhere. For a child to be clean, childcare centres or parents/carers should reinforce personal hygiene in a child’s daily routine. A child needs to be emotionally and psychologically strong to fight their weaknesses. They need to be showered with lots of love, affection and respect. They also need to socialise with the environment that they are in. If these needs are fulfilled then the child would be emotionally and socially strong and healthy. What is a need? A need is defined as a requirement, something that you have to have, a thing necessary for life. There are basic needs which every living thing needs in order to live. Some examples of basic needs are shelter, fresh air to breath, food and water. Therefore a physical need is “something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy and productive life” (What Is the Meaning of Physical Needs, undated). Children also have their own physical needs as an individual to grow up healthy and well mannered. Some of the examples of these needs...
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...planned ahead and has a specific purpose and helps assess children’s development. Informal observations are when an adult may observe a child doing many small things during the day/year. Observations can be in the form of checklists, tick charts, written records/snapshot observations, time and event samples. Feeding back information from observations to the teacher is important as it means that a clear picture can be made of the child’s development needs and progress. Information can be shared with parents, carers and outside agencies so that they can work together to help any child that might need...
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...LIFE STAGES: | Life stages: | Physical: | Intellectual: | Emotional: | Social development: | Conception: | Conception is the beginning of the human life. A fertile woman averagely produces one egg cell each month , roughly down from the ovary ,and along the fallopian tubes towards the uterus. If you having sex whilst the egg is in the tube there is a possibility for conception for a another life to be formed. | Not even movement. | There is no intellectual what so ever the brain haven’t even formed yet | The embryo doesn’t well feelings like being sad or happy or angry haven’t come to the stage of feelings development | The embryo has no social development at all because the bay has no proper development. | Pregnancy: | The egg and sperm meet and make an embryo .The beginning of the three weeks after conception marks the start of the embryonic period. After two or three days there are enough new cells to make the fertilised egg the size of a pin head . This collection of cells travels to the lining of the uterus where it becomes anchored .The developing collection is now called an embryo. Its attached to the wall of the uterus by a placenta. Once the embryo is attached to the uterus wall, a chemical signal stops the woman from having another menstrual period. | At stage layers of cells from which all the baby organs and Body parts will develop. In the second month the baby is now as big as a kidney and is constantly moving .After eight weeks ,the embryo may have...
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...Unit 4: Development through the life stages for Health and Social Care P1 – Describe Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social development for each of the life stages of an individual This assignment will describe the different factors of development throughout stages of life, beginning from contraception through to the final stages of life. It will highlight the four factors like, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional and Social development. Conception – This is the stage where life is made and is done so when a male sperm fertilises the female egg this normally happens in the fallopian tube after insemination at this point the fertilised egg makes it way to the uterus (womb) this is when the stage is called pregnancy. Millions of sperm are ejaculated by a man during orgasm, just one sperm is needed to fertilise the egg. In some cases the ovary can release more than one egg, dependant on how many eggs will be fertilised will determine the number of embryo’s this could be anything from twins to eightuplets. Physical As this is the initial stage of life there is not much physical development within this stage only of when the sperm intergrades with the egg and creates the embryo. Dependent of the chromosome will determine the baby’s sex. If the male’s sperm delivers an X chromosome then the child will be a baby girl but if a Y chromosome is delivered then this will produce a baby boy. This is the only physical change that takes at this stage. Intellectual No intellectual...
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...that has already been taken up by adult led activities i.e. lining up, registration etc. There must also be a balance when it comes to outdoors and indoors. 4.2 The importance of engaging with a child to support sustained shared thinking is that it encourages conversation between one another. When a child is interested in something it enables them for sustained shared thinking, this can either be by doing something or talking about something. For example: In my setting we would each have a plant pot to plant a seed and the children would become interested in what they thought the seed would grow into and fascinated of how they grow into plants. This encourages the children to come to a conclusion and explore a deeper level of concepts. It enables them to think about the process of the seed growing and learning new information. And for the children to process information enables them to think. EYMP 3 1.2 If a child is suspected of or is being bullied then it is our responsibility to record and report the information to the deputy head/headmaster to ensure the child’s safety and wellbeing of the child. The practitioner would sit down with the child who would explain the situation of who and when the bullying started etc. Once the information has been reported, they would then follow the bullying policy and procedures and also inform both children’s parents about the situation in order to prevent any more bullying happening between children and young people. By following the bullying...
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...research from health and social care fact books (Secondary Research).The reason I would questionnaire parents and staff is because they have the knowledge and understanding of young babies and children and know what the choice of needs are for them. The other reason is because they have also the experience in which they can and give to me. The reason I would research from health and social care fact books are because people who have taken degrees in these subject have written these books and would be more reliable that me searching on the Internet for this aim. The ways your client group can obtain care services and the possible barriers that can prevent them from gaining access to these services. (The customs that babies and children can gain from care services and the achievable barriers that can stop babies and children from getting hold of access to these services). I would research on the internet and questionnaire service providers. The reason I would research ask services is because they do offer the services and would know all about why they stop babies and children from getting hold of these services. The reason I would search the internet is so that I can get a second point of view and because other people have written on the websites I will be getting information from them who are mothers, fathers or carers. The types of services that exist to meet your client group’s needs, and...
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...Diabetes transition Assessment of current best practice and development of a future work programme to improve transition processes for young people with diabetes. Transition in healthcare is only one part of the evolution from dependent child to independent adult (David, 2001). Submitted by Ruth Gordon, Ruth Gordon Associates Ltd to NHS Diabetes. Supporting, Improving, Caring August 2012 Acknowledgements This project was funded by NHS Diabetes and supported by Gillian Johnson, North East Regional Programme Manager. The expert panel was made up of a group of clinicians and others who provided information, commented on the process and contributed to the views included in this final report. Others have influenced the later stages of the work and will be involved in planning how to take this project forwards. Therefore thanks go to: • Fiona Campbell • Deborah Christie • Chris Cooper • Julie Cropper • Gail Dovey-Pearce • Jane Edmunds • Gavin Eyres • Sue Greenhalgh • Peter Hammond • Gillian Johnson • Susannah Rowles • Carolyn Stephenson • Helen Thornton • Peter Winocour • Alison Woodhead Without the two clinical leads, Peter Hammond from Harrogate and Fiona Campbell from Leeds, this work and report would not have been possible. Contents Executive summary Context Background and rationale Aims of the project Timing of the project Process undertaken for the project Evidence base and policy background Results from the snapshot research Good practice Examples of good practice...
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...building blocks. Jordon’s hobby is playing football with his father. Jordon does not suffer from any medical issues or diseases; however he is allergic to egg which means that the nursery cook and staff need to ensure that they are extra careful with what they feed him. Overall this isn’t a great concern and other than that he is a healthy boy. Task 1: 1. Education through play: Schools & nurseries offer a wide range of services in order to stimulate the children. It also gives them a chance to interact with others whilst learning and gaining new skills. The most important and one of the main services is education through play. From my experience at Childs Play Nursery which we visited as a school trip, I found out that for young children to enjoy learning they have to physically engage in the activities. This is aimed at all the children who attend Childs Play Nursery as they are given fun, enjoyable and a range of different ways which include educational but also non-education activities. This could include numerous games including counting or learning the alphabet as a song, building blocks and getting them to count as they go along which would improve their numeracy skills. If the...
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...isolating themselves from their peers and other adults, and depending on the age of the child, this could result in lack of focus and diminishing grades in older children, or slow development in communication skills in the younger children. This could affect them into later life, seeing the young adult being more introverted. There are several ways of helping a child adapt to a new school or nursery. Settling periods, for example, allow the child to be introduced to the setting slowly, over a few days. They’ll be able to stay in the new setting with their parent/ carer in the initial settle, until they’re comfortable enough to be left alone. Some schools/nurseries have books with pictures of staff members, children and classrooms inside, to give to the child before they begin at the new placement. This allows them prepare themselves before starting, by learning to recognise some of the faces and settings, and will help them feel more at ease during their first...
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...progress made and ways to achieve a positive outcome for the child and parent. Also relevant referrals can be made to specialist agencies. Working together prevents duplication across all agencies, contributing to better support for the family. For example I send weekly reports to the social worker’s to update them on the progress of the young mothers and their babies. This report contains a variety of information from bonding and feeding baby to the well being of the mother. This ensures that all support is in place to help the development of the baby and parenting skills of the mother. Core group meetings are also usually held at our home...
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...Physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of an individual at each life stage Physical development Conception to Birth | By the first two weeks, the embryo has attached itself to the uterine wall, the baby’s body starts to develop, the head and trunk appear, followed by tiny arms and buds. Also around 25 days baby’s heart will start beating, the by 30 days the baby will be about a quarter of an inch long, have a brain, eyes, ears, mouth, kidneys, liver and baby’s heart will be pumping blood that he created himself. In the second month the embryo drastically increases in size from 5mm to 40mm, figures and toes start to grow, by the seventh week baby has its own fingerprint, also eyes and ears start to appear, baby will start to move around nearing the eight week. In the third, four and fifth months the baby will be able to feel pain, baby kicks and has a strong grip. Also around that time baby’s hair, eyelashes and eyebrows start to grow as well as baby should by now have open eyes. In the end months before baby is born, baby is able to suck his thumb. The baby will be most active when the mother lays own at night, fatal activity will be affected by now the mother is feeling. | Infancy(0-3) | Reflex develop for survival, for example babies automatically sauce when presented with a nipple. When a mother speaks the child’s heal will automatically turn towards their parent voice. Skills like: blinking, grasping, stepping, sucking and more develop. Rapid growth...
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...PREVENTION OF OBESITY IN CHILDHOOD Introduction What is health The World Health Organisation (WHO 1986)defines health as a state of complete physical ,mental and social well being and not just the absence of disease and infirmity. Forster (2002) confirms that health is generally seen in terms of people being ill or well but indicates that this is a simplistic view, as being well or ill are not entirely separate notions but in fact overlap to some degree. Forster(2002) while concurring with the definition of health as provided by the WHO (1986) adds that this definition provides a positive view of health and suggest that health fluctuates over time along a continuum, good and poor health appearing at opposite poles of the continuum. Ewles and Simnett(2003) also suggest that health is determined by many factors such as Physical health, body function, Societal health living accomodation ,employment status , Spiritual health, religious beliefs and moral values or behaviours, Social health being able to sustain relationships and make friends, Emotional health the ability to cope with depression, stress and anxiety. Therefore an individuals health position along this continuum is variable but no distinct demarcation line between health and ill health exists. With regards to the definition given it is argued that health professionals interventions should focus on helping the clients ,individuals, families and communities to gain health related knowledge, attitudes and practice associated...
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